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When Fail Safe opened in October 1964, it garnered excellent reviews, but its box-office performance was poor. Its failure rested with the similarity between it and the nuclear war satire Dr. Strangelove, which had appeared in theaters first, in January 1964.
He appeared in such movies as Fail-Safe (1964; as a jingoist and increasingly unstable U.S. Air Force colonel, ashamed of his foreign-born and alcoholic parents, whom he refers to as "those people"), Marathon Man (1976; as a professor advising the protagonist, a graduate student), Black Sunday (1977; as the lead FBI agent in an anti-terrorism ...
1964 Ensign Pulver: Doc 1964 Fail-Safe: Professor Groeteschele 1964 Goodbye Charlie: Sir Leopold Sartori 1965 Mirage: Ted Caselle 1966 The Fortune Cookie: William H. "Whiplash Willie" Gingrich Co-stars with Jack Lemmon 1967 A Guide for the Married Man: Paul Manning 1968 The Odd Couple: Oscar Madison: Co-stars with Jack Lemmon 1968
Frank Emmons Overton (March 12, 1918 – April 24, 1967) [1] was an American actor. He was best known for the roles of Major Harvey Stovall in Twelve O'Clock High (1964-1967), Sheriff Heck Tate in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), and General Bogan in Fail Safe (1964).
Comedies were rare in Matthau's work at that time. He was cast in a number of stark dramas, such as Fail Safe (1964), in which he portrayed Pentagon adviser Dr. Groeteschele, who urges an all-out nuclear attack on the Soviet Union in response to an accidental transmission of an attack signal to U.S. Air Force bombers.
Fail-Safe, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy and Walter Matthau The Fall of the Roman Empire , starring Sophia Loren , Stephen Boyd and Alec Guinness Fanny Hill , directed by Russ Meyer – ( West Germany /U.S.)
Actors Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson sometimes were asked to wear a camera rig while delivering their lines, to create the point-of-view approach of the film. Two young actors find a safe space ...
DeLuise generally appeared in comedic parts, although an early appearance in the movie Fail-Safe as a nervous USAF technical sergeant showed a broader range. His first acting credit was as a regular performer in the television show The Entertainers in 1964.